It appears we’re not alone!   The culprit seems to be Microsoft Messenger which is causing the errant download messages due to problems with some adverts.  

You can cancel the download of ADSAdClient31, however the downloads appear quite often, so until Microsoft fix the problem we have a work around which helps you block the adverts from a previous blog post:

Block Windows Live Messenger 2011 Pop-Up Window

There are reports over on the apple forums that the corner of the device gets hot (not just warm) after use and some are even reporting that the unit shuts down with a warning that “the iPad needs to cool down”.

Have you experienced these problems, or is your new iPad running cool?

Gizmodo Article

Having helped a client before with similar problems I can understand how frustrating and worrying this can be,

If you’re one of CornerHost’s customers there are some things you can do now in preparation:

1) Backup!   If you can get a copy of all of your hosted files, then getting your website up and running on another host is going to be much easier!

2) Take a note of your IP address (from a command prompt type “ping www.yourdomain.com” to find out the address of your hosting server

3) If name resolution fails, you can always add a local hosts file to poiint to your server to aid getting a backup

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Good luck!

1) Reset your synchronisation history

2) Delete all previous backups (C:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup)

3) Right click on command prompt and select “Run as Administrator”

4) run the command “netsh winsock reset”

5) As always, finish with a reboot!

Hope this works for you too!

They’re holding a press conference at 14:00 (Europe/Zurich) today 13/12/11 to discuss they’re latest findings.

You can watch a live webcast of the event here:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=164890

Follow @cern for the latest announcements, or watch the latest Tweets from around Cern on a map here:

http://www.seekatweet.com/?distance=10&lat=46.23281545877312&lng=6.059989929199219&zoom=10&filterkeywords=cern

http://www.google.com/grants/

The scheme is designed to provide free advertising to charities through the Google AdWords system and also includes non-commission based Google Checkout.

If you’re accepted into the program, your organisation is entitled to up to $330 “per day” of free advertising!    There are strict rules over the content and target of the adverts, but with a little work, you could be driving a lot of relevant traffic to your organisation.

I’ve worked with www.brunswickstreetmission.org in Halifax to implement this and will be helping them to use the service to increase awareness of the great work they do.

So what’s happening?    There appears to be a general lack of interest between Canadian carriers to support the platform, who instead are focusing on iPhone, Android and RIM?

Take a look in retail stores and there are little or no signs of any Windows Phone 7 devices.   The only units I’ve found have been mislabelled as running Android!

So are the carriers finally dropping support for Windows Phone 7, or simply clearing stock ready for the imminent arrival of Mango devices?

Nokia has stated that they’ll be bringing WP7 Mango devices to Canada in 2012, however there’s no confirmation on dates, carriers or models yet?     How long will consumers be wiling to wait for WP7 before giving up and going with a different platform?

Are Microsoft and the device manufacturers going to miss their window of opportunity to establish a WP7 Mango presence in the Canadian mobile marketplace?

Initial suggestions pointed to the system date/time which was indeed incorrect, however after fixing (and even rebooting just in case) the error still appeared?

Turns out you need to update the root certificate for the machine first!   You can download the update for this from the following Microsoft URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5397

Once downloaded, double click on the file to install.   There’s no feedback to say it’s run successfully, but Windows Update suddenly springs back into life..

Now downloading the first 30 updates of many probably!…

According to “The Loop”, an Apple spokesperson said:

“A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices,   We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”

In the meantime, people are reporting improved battery life by disabling “Setting Time Zone” (Settings>Location Services>System Services).

Let us know your experience in the poll below :